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Title: CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61
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URL Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html
Published: Jun 8, 2018
Author: Brian Stelter
Post Date: 2018-06-08 07:37:47 by A K A Stone
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Views: 5930
Comments: 44
New York (CNN)Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61.
CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide. "It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain," the network said in a statement Friday morning. "His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller.
His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time."
Bourdain was in France working on an upcoming episode of his award-winning CNN series "Parts Unknown." His close friend Eric Ripert, the French chef, found Bourdain unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning. Bourdain was a master of his crafts -- first in the kitchen and then in the media. Through his TV shows and books, he explored the human condition and helped audiences think differently about food, travel and themselves.
He advocated for marginalized populations and campaigned for safer working conditions for restaurant staffs. Along the way, he received practically every award the industry has to offer. In 2013, Peabody Award judges honored Bourdain and "Parts Unknown" for "expanding our palates and horizons in equal measure." "He's irreverent, honest, curious, never condescending, never obsequious," the judges said. "People open up to him and, in doing so, often reveal more about their hometowns or homelands than a traditional reporter could hope to document."
The Smithsonian once called him "the original rock star" of the culinary world, "the Elvis of bad boy chefs." In 1999 he wrote a New Yorker article, "Don't Eat Before Reading This," that became a best-selling book in 2000, "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly." The book set him on a path to international stardom.
First he hosted "A Cook's Tour" on the Food Network, then moved to "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" on the Travel Channel. "No Reservations" was a breakout hit, earning two Emmy Awards and more than a dozen nominations. In 2013 both Bourdain and CNN took a risk by bringing him to the news network still best known for breaking news and headlines. Bourdain quickly became one of the principal faces of the network and one of the linchpins of the prime time schedule. Season eleven of "Parts Unknown" premiered on CNN last month. While accepting the Peabody award in 2013, Bourdain described how he approached his work. "We ask very simple questions: What makes you happy? What do you eat? What do you like to cook? And everywhere in the world we go and ask these very simple questions," he said, "we tend to get some really astonishing answers." Bourdain's death happened after fashion designer Kate Spade hanged herself in an apparent suicide at her Manhattan apartment on Tuesday. Spade was found hanged by a scarf she allegedly tied to a doorknob, an NYPD source said. Suicide is a growing problem in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a survey Thursday showing suicide rates increased by 25% across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016. Twenty-five states experienced a rise in suicides by more than 30%, the government report finds.
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#5. To: GrandIsland (#1)
What the hell is wrong with you?
He always seemed like a happy kind of guy, even if misguided. Not sure why he would want to off himself.
He was at the top of his game, only 61 and healthy. No reason for it. I suspect autoerotic asphyxiation.
An interesting leftist who, as I recall, fantasized about poisoning Trump's food. Kitchen Confidential is a pretty good read; having cut cable TV years ago the only bits of his TV shows I ever saw were pirated on YouTube or on an in-restaurant TV. It seems a much bigger deal was made of the silly purse chick a few days ago, but there's the weekend to stew in it for the fake-news media.
When he was in Lebanon under attack his rescue was a day laTe blaming Bush maybe he ThoughT he was funny blah If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
Me too. Screw CNN. Admittedly, he would be low on my list of CNN people I'd like to see gone.
I never considered that. But I think those get ruled as accidental deaths, not suicide. Anyway, I recall that from David Carradine's autoerotic death in Thailand.
"CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide." Hey, if CNN said it was suicide, who are we to question it?
I don't know this man and I am sorry he resorted to suicide. Suicide hurts the living more than the individual. They'll be asking themselves, is there something more I could have done? Did I ever say anything out of line to him, etc.
For some reason, I've always expected that you'd go out that way.
Good one!
Trump is classy. He graciously released a sympathetic statement about Bourdain. Even after Bourdain once "joked" about poisoning President Trump on his CNN show: CNN host Bourdain jokes about poisoning Trump http://thehill.com/homenews/media/350857-cnn-host-bourdain-jokes-about-poisoning-trump (snip) CNN host Anthony Bourdain joked in an interview with TMZ that he would poison President Trump if given the opportunity to cook for him and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “If Trump and Kim Jong-un were going to have a bit of a summit to try and mend relations and they wanted you to cater, what would you serve?” asked a TMZ reporter. “Hemlock," Bourdain deadpanned. Hemlock is defined as "a drug or lethal drink prepared from the poison hemlock" that has been used as an execution method.... The Dem-Left hates onto death (or suicide -- which ever comes first.)
There are worse ways to go.
I would have said, "What did he do, eat his own food?"
They'll be asking themselves, is there something more I could have done? Did I ever say anything out of line to him, etc. Well Fred, I am touched by your empathy. I had idea you were an angel. Did you ever ask yourself if you were "out of line" with A K A? Question: Do you feel the same way about "suicide" in the case of those ghouls who publicly wish others (aka Conservatives or Trump) ill-will and death? Bourdain "joked" about poisoning Trump. Chyeah, "Ha-Ha!!" If the same had been said about 0bama, the celeb would have gotten a nasty visit from the SS and been audited. Truth of the matter: All you can do for those who are Democrats, Leftists and Liberals is tell them the truth on any given matter. But they'll still spit in your face, and hate and blame you.
Lol, that woulda been a good one...(You can always tweet it) Social media lynch-mob Twitter, FB, and CNN would have gotten hysterical and lit DT up like a Christmas Tree and called him, "WORSE-THEN-HITLER!!" It's always ok for hypocritical vulgar libs-Left to "joke" about Trump's or any conservative's death, but NOT ok for the lib-Left to be the butt of any joke. Even jokes that are relatively tame.
Sure, I talk to myself all the time and ask myself questions. Sometimes I don't get answers. Everybody does this, right? I'm going to start calling you yappy.
NYSlimes: "Christian de Rocquigny du Fayel, the prosecutor for the city of Colmar, in the Alsace region near where Mr. Bourdain was found, said the cause of death was hanging. “At this stage, we have no reason to suspect foul play,” he said." So it was asphyxiation. Of course, if it was autoerotic, the French police might simply be practicing discretion. I know the Carradine family is still mad about the Thais revealing how he died and those death scene photos of him in a woman's wig and lingerie, dangling by the neck from a closet clothes rod in his Thai hotel room. I'm not sure if they ever did manage to scrub the photos out of the search engines and websites.
The Bamster weighs in with his version of a "tribute". Tributes are supposed to be reassuring to friends and family. But this narcissistic trash can't just play anything straight, can he? This is pretentious weirdness and (so he thinks) cryptic. It always comes back to his 0bama's ego, projection and social activism, and of course, a dopey reminder of his own communism (Hanoi beer): — Barack 0bama (@BarackObama) June 8, 2018
I agree 100%. The French will probably be very tight-lipped and discrete if this was the case. The guy was an admitted risk-taker and seemed to be unhappy. In a recent People Mag interview (link to NY Post below), he stated that the way he would want to die would be "in the saddle". For some weird reason he waxed on about dying and methods of suicide. He was obviously not right in the head. https://pagesix.com/2018/06/08/anthony-bourdain-reflected-on-death-in-months-before-suicide/ (snip) Before his daughter was born, Bourdain said he’d often push his boundaries. “I was, frankly, asking for trouble. It was a daredevil move,” he said. “In retrospect, I don’t know that I would do that today, now that I’m a dad or reasonably happy.”
That's what I'm thinking. What good is served by publicly exposing the truth (if autoerotic is true)? As long as the family knows what really happened.
I could really give a Shi'ite about these overrated (alleged) celebrity chefs that I've never heard of or seen on TV. The only one I can even think of is Gordon Ramsey and I'd be hoping someone would just shoot that a-hole.
That's how I'll remember Obama.
Everybody who lives compassionately and a conscience probably does. I'm encouraged that you do believe the way you do. I'm going to start calling you yappy. In that case I'm going to start calling you, Yappy Jr. Cuz all those words and letters....Easy on the coffee, Fred.
Yeah, I don't get this heavy-duty worship of "celebrity" chefs thingy. We can thank Emiril I guess. (That there even became a "Food Channel" seemed bizarre at the time to begin with.) he only one I can even think of is Gordon Ramsey and I'd be hoping someone would just shoot that a-hole. Don't watch 'em, but your opinion appears to be somewhat of a consensus.
Bwaahaa! Niiice zinger.
Hmmm...subliminal message? What an odd thing for the first gay Prez to write as part of a Twitter death "tribute".
Why not? If it was a Republican, the Slimes would issue an extra edition with 140-point typeface and it would headline the libmedia outlets for at least a week.
So ramen noodles and some cheap mass-produced Thai beer, those are his legacy according to 0bama? I'm not sure that Bourdain invented low plastic stools or made them popular. Really, 0bama was kind of insulting to him and his reputation as a foodie/chef.
Obama was second - GW Bush was first. THE SECRET LIFE OF GEORGE W. BUSH Claims made against Bush in Leola McConnell’s book Lustful Utterances are said to tie Bush, a former college cheerleader, to wild sex encounters which include a longtime friend and former “roomie” Victor Ashe, appointed Ambassador to Poland by Bush. We are more than familiar with Washington scandals. President Clinton barely survived impeachment for his involvement with Monica Lewinsky. One major difference between the Clinton scandals and the Bush/Cheney scandals is that Monica Lewinsky is still alive. A couple of recent suicides, quickly “justified” by an overly compliant press helped the recent Bush/Cheney problems disappear. Leola McConnell’s is nowhere to be found but wrote the following: A lawsuit was filed against Bush in 2002 for rape by a woman named Margie Schoedinger. For some reason, she mysteriously committed suicde. We will see there is alot of this and other accidents that follow.
Maybe not. Doing so, after all, implies that there's something wrong with it.
This libtard tool dabbled in HEROIN and had a dark side to his personality. That’s like being an old bold pilot. The two don’t go well together. He loved drugs, and you loved that he used them. Don’t piss down my leg and tell me it’s raining, you dumb shit
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
“Hemlock," Bourdain deadpanned. That’s another reason that I’ll post... adios, you feckless cunt (regarding his death)... and trigger the over sensitized Dicktard with my lack of sympathy.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Ugh...You're right. Dubya WAS the "first". Few want to believe it and dismiss Dubya's gaiety as "another CT". What a sickeningly wild story. The link also does the math and connects even more dots for us. *barf* Later, it was revealed that lawyers for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged “DC Madam” considered calling McConnell to be an expert witness to testify on Palfrey’s behalf in her case versus the government. Palfrey, if you remember, was also murdered even though the official story was “suicide”. Yes...remember the DC Madam? Both these women were taken out by barbaric goob assets that have nothing on the worst of the Brownshirts. Our Capitol. What a festering hellhole of perversion and satanism. Let's not forget they are also involved in Pizzagate, a kiddy scandal that was scrubbed clean.
Yup. Pretty cheap, simple and petty. Just like 0bama. Really, 0bama was kind of insulting to him and his reputation as a foodie/chef. My clear impression as well. Don't expect the MSM to scrutinize and rightly criticize that dope. Without a script and teleprompter he's an inappropriate idiot.
NOT that the MSM will notice too much. Bordain will (is already) be lionized by the Lib-Left media as a "hero". Just like that celeb designer who also offed herself a couple days ago. Cuz EVERY lib-Leftist is somehow a "hero". Ever notice that if lib-leftards support abortion, bad-mouthed President Trump, support gay ANYTHING, etc, the MSM awards them love on a "point" system?
Yup, the only thing a snowflake loves, is preaching opposition to the right... regardless if it’s right, reasonable or logical.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Yeah, spreading his hate on Trump makes it almost impossible to invoke much sympathy for Bourdain. His ideological ilk spread and wish ill and death upon the REST of us. Yes, even Libertarians like Deckard are on Bourdain's ilks' hit-list. Already I've wasted too much time on this guy.
Hear ya... I'm also so sick of this PC preaching and sanctimony from these k00ks. Logic and reason are enemies to these lunatics.... Check out this nut on Tucker Carlson just last night. Sure, these loons are a dime a dozen, but watch a bit of the stunning degree of functional insanity unfold here (starting at 14:02). The ossified lib is a teacher/professor. ZERO sense/ logic/reason/truth. Even Tucker is stunned. Man...Are they paying Tucker enough to put up with this parade of one liberal loon after the next? The first story is on the Starbucks "sensitivity re-training." Some BLM shill who hates whitey predictably does what he does.
Well,there were and are rumors that Lincoln was a homo,and I SEEM to remember that a lot of people thought a president from the late 1800's or early 1900's was a homo too,but I can't remember his name for the life of me.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#7. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#8. To: A K A Stone (#0)
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#9. To: Hank Rearden (#8)
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#10. To: GrandIsland (#3)
Anything that CNN cries over (or uses to make the sheep weaker by ignoring CONSEQUENCES for poor decisions, via sympathy) I laugh at.
#11. To: misterwhite (#7)
I suspect autoerotic asphyxiation.
#12. To: Tooconservative (#11)
But I think those get ruled as accidental deaths, not suicide.
#13. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#14. To: misterwhite (#7)
I suspect autoerotic asphyxiation.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#15. To: Deckard (#14)
#16. To: misterwhite, Tooconservative, GrandIsland, all (#12)
#17. To: Deckard (#14)
For some reason, I've always expected that you'd go out that way.
#18. To: Liberator (#16)
Trump is classy. He graciously released a sympathetic statement about Bourdain.
#19. To: Fred Mertz (#13)
Suicide hurts the living more than the individual.
#20. To: misterwhite (#18)
I would have said, "What did he do, eat his own food?"
#21. To: Liberator (#19)
Did you ever ask yourself if you were "out of line" with A K A?
#22. To: misterwhite, Liberator (#17)
#23. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#11)
“Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer.” This is how I’ll remember Tony. He taught us about food — but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To make us a little less afraid of the unknown. We’ll miss him. pic.twitter.com/orEXIaEMZM
#24. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#22)
So it was asphyxiation. Of course, if it was autoerotic, the French police might simply be practicing discretion.
“There have been times, honestly, in my life that I figured, ‘I’ve had a good run — why not just do this stupid thing, this selfish thing … jump off a cliff into water of indeterminate depth,'” he said, recalling something he’d once done for his show “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.”
#25. To: Tooconservative (#22)
Of course, if it was autoerotic, the French police might simply be practicing discretion.
#26. To: Liberator (#23)
#27. To: Liberator (#23)
“Low plastic stool ..."
#28. To: Fred Mertz (#21)
Sure, I talk to myself all the time and ask myself questions. Sometimes I don't get answers. Everybody does this, right?
#29. To: Tooconservative (#26)
#30. To: misterwhite (#27)
#31. To: misterwhite (#27)
0bama: “Low plastic stool ..."
#32. To: misterwhite (#25)
What good is served by publicly exposing the truth (if autoerotic is true)?
#33. To: Liberator (#23)
“Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer.”
#34. To: Liberator (#31)
the first gay Prez
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#35. To: Tooconservative (#32)
If it was a Republican, the Slimes would issue an extra edition with 140-point typeface and it would headline the libmedia outlets for at least a week.
#36. To: Deckard (#5)
(Edited)
#37. To: Liberator (#16)
“If Trump and Kim Jong-un were going to have a bit of a summit to try and mend relations and they wanted you to cater, what would you serve?” asked a TMZ reporter.
#38. To: Deckard, sneakypete (#34)
Obama was second - GW Bush was first.
(snip)
#39. To: Tooconservative (#33)
So ramen noodles and some cheap mass-produced Thai beer, those are his legacy according to 0bama?
#40. To: GrandIsland, CZ82 (#36)
This libtard tool dabbled in HEROIN and had a dark side to his personality. That’s like being an old bold pilot. The two don’t go well together. He loved drugs...
#41. To: Liberator (#40)
#42. To: GrandIsland, Deckard (#37)
That’s another reason that I’ll post... adios, you feckless cunt (regarding his death)... and trigger the over sensitized Dicktard with my lack of sympathy.
#43. To: GrandIsland, Tooconservative (#41)
(Edited)
#44. To: Deckard (#34)
Obama was second - GW Bush was first.
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